skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You underestimate just how much concentrated retail volume is. I have had more than ten people ask me how to buy GME. Its on the front page of everything. Bitcoin’s nearly $1T market cap is more or less all retail.

Plenty of WSB posts with multi million positions.

Disclosure: I long GME.
You're making a lot of assumptions in that statement and spinning a hypothetical story in your head that does not match reality.

There are ways to live below your means in America. You may need social assistance if you're in hard times (and that's OK, that's what it's there for), but there is. If you say otherwise, you're just making things up.

I said this in another post, but I can guarantee you that even in places like North Korea, people are squirreling away the little they have, just as my grandmother did. It's possible to save even under poverty and/or extreme situations. And America isn't North Korea.
Where can I learn Tk/Tcl today?
It’s because they’re positing that it’s only people on the left that do this.

I’ve heard it said that the enemy of extremists isn't the extremist on the other side, it’s the moderates. Extremists are itching for a fight, and they’ll continue fighting forever. Moderates and pragmatists stand in the way of that goal. If an extremist group were to win and completely eliminate the other side, they’d draw some other battle lines within their own group. “Othering” is important to extremists, and the’ll find a way to do it.

I’m another proud lefty. I marched with Black Lives Matter last summer, voted for Elizabeth Warren in the primaries, I’m vegan for all the reasons people think are stupid. All of that is true, and it infuriates me to see leftist extremists getting dressed up in black and setting buildings on fire. It infuriates me to see leftists gatekeeping on Twitter, and taking such joy from tweeting people’s employers to try to get them fired for the crime of making a joke that didn’t pass a purity test, or for having a counterintuitive take on something complex. Internet pile ons are the worst.

All that said, it confounds me that people on the right seem to be unable to see these traits within their own party, and aren’t working harder to rid their ranks of QAnon, Proud Boys, and Trumpism. It seems like anyone on the right who has the temerity to point out these problems gets branded as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and expelled from the party. Jeff Sessions – JEFF SESSIONS – was cancelled by the right for not being right enough.

So, yeah, there’s a lot of projection going on all around.
On this we agree. I dropped in when I felt like reading/engaging in some shitposting. That said, WSB is a good alternate stock screen.
Alot of people don't care about riches, they just care about winning, they want revenge even if it'll cost them.
This is a great point - I'll likely make a follow up post regarding this. I've never seen the autoStash option (it's not even on the git-stash man pages/documentation), and definitely very useful.

Edit: I've added a section on autostashing and on the -p flag.
That is sad but normal.

What’s scary is that this behavior is now acceptable. As long as it’s against group X
i guess we’ll disagree there. i’m sure the big boys are playing the swings but they didn’t start this. and it’s not just Gamestop it’s a lot of names.
Did you mean "stocks"?
I agree that a UI is well expressed as a tree, for the sake of accessibility and other reasons. I don‘t see why there is any reason to seperate the declaration of that tree from the application code. The flutter approach is bad, but all established desktop and mobile UI frameworks provide accessibility support as good or better than HTML.

In fact, HTML is ill equipped to express capital A Applications in an accessible form and needs ARIA as a bandaid to make it work.

The application runtime knows about the UI tree by the time the app is running and can tell accessibility tools about it. Wether you write it down explicitly or not doesn‘t matter. It only matters for web "pages" which are original not something that is running at all.
The companies aren't similar, but both are/were heavily shorted "meme" stocks used as examples of an irrational market or bubble. Both short squeezed, and were heavily shorted by many of the same groups.
> first DVD player for the household

True for me, I bet PS2s and PS3s are now the last DVD players in a lot of households too!
Options can be used to create a position that behaves like a short, except without the cash being deposited and without having to pay interest on borrowed shares. Sell a call and buy a put with the same strike, and choose the strike so that the call premium equals the put premium.
If you want an entertaining explanation of what's going on with GameStop's stock, I highly recommend these videos from Louis Rossmann:

https://lbry.tv/@rossmanngroup:a/wallstreetbets-vs-citron-re...

https://lbry.tv/@rossmanngroup:a/why-mainstream-media-s-slan...

https://lbry.tv/@rossmanngroup:a/gamestop-shorts-lose-billio...

https://lbry.tv/@rossmanngroup:a/gamestop-shorts-are-full-of...

(That's how I learned about the whole thing, which I frankly find fascinating.)
We first did a home birth & later two center births. These were so my wife could better control her deliveries.

Our last birth was twins and our midwife directed us to a 100% female OB/GYN practice. They were beyond fantastic.
"talks for a massive federal minimum wage increase means further sending people into poverty by destroying the value of what small savings anyone on the bottom might have."

This statement is only true, and then only formally, if you limit yourself to considering first order effects. The distributive effects of minimum wage policies will alter final consumer demand, which will have an impact on capital structure and demand for labor. Formally speaking, the overall effect on any given worker depends logically on elasticities of demand for different consumer goods and labor.

But most people don't care about the "Econ 101" model because they (rightly) suspect that it covers a special case that isn't relevant to real-world decision making. Econometric research paints a much more complicated picture.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/economi...
Dumb question - could the shorts actually negotiate with Gamestop directly to get them to issue new stocks? Wouldn't that be a win-win (and the retail loses, because a) the stock is diluted, and b) no one would be "forced" to buy from them)
Hello - I'm one of the co-founders. Solid analysis! I'd say that we're better at building tools than websites so I'll add some extra information here.

1. Text based netlists are ok for digital heavy circuits like you said, and we agree the schematic is important (which is why we're generating one). It's hard, but quality of results is constantly improving. The schematic is modifiable by the way - we can keep human modifications to the aesthetics in lock step with the generator.

We do go a bit further than text based - the design code is parametric all the way through to low-level packages and symbols. It's not just typing out the same information that's in a schematic - it's about levels of hierarchical reuse that build on each other.

2. Right now we can do a good job automating the selection of parts that are fully defined by a set of parameters i.e. the jellybean parts like resistors, capacitors, inductors. Moderately useful by itself, but if this was the only part of JITX you used you may just be just saving yourself a few hours of digikey searching and spreadsheeting. The more interesting part is that it lets us write circuits that are more reusable. As designers, we key in the attributes that are important for the circuit and leave the rest of the constraints open for optimization.

We do more automated simulation and validation than I've seen in other tools, which helps with component selection (and other automated flows), and inspires a bit more confidence in the design than just saying 'here's your part, trust me'

I agree that guided design space exploration is the end game of automated component selection. We want people to have a conversation with the tool and rapidly evaluate 'what if' questions. It won't be fully automated and that's not our goal. We think tools can automate the low level work and leave the creative bits and the intangibles up to the humans.

On the programming language aspect - JITX is currently embedded in Stanza (the same language we wrote the compiler in). We use an Intermediate Representation for the language (like LLVM, or FIRRTL if you're familiar with Chisel), so other language front ends are possible. What would your top language pick be?
Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid
I'm not a doctor/scientist… but I feel like it's easily just as bad for mature adults.

The constant stream of news and social media… it doesn't have a calming effect. People, in general, seem more angry too.
The elevator pitch for the Culture (the society the books are based around) is that it's a hyper advanced society governed/managed by Culture Minds (equally hyper advanced AIs) that are powerful enough to pay individual attention to each and every citizen. Citizens are just being sentient enough that call themselves "Culture citizens".

There's no centralized power stricture, or even a clear definition of what counts as Culture or not. If a certain society within the Culture thinks their ideals drifted too much, they can just pack up and declare "independence".

For individual citizens, they can pretty much do anything if they can convince someone (and only if they need resources). If they think it's not really a utopia, they're free to leave and join another society.

Most of the conflicts in the book happen because, in contrast to the Federation in Star Trek, the Culture actively tries to "improve" other civilizations they have a fundamental disagreement with, and how they try to not screw it up when there are equally powerful civilizations on the other side of the ideological divide.

So while you don't get the story of how the Culture came to be, you do see it contrasted with a bunch of societies they try to improve.
> Out of curiosity, what about this particular project made you opt for CircuitPython?

It was a nonprofit-style project without much wiggle room. We wanted to prove that an idea would or would not work in a small amount of time, which happily overlapped with the fact that the target environment for the device wouldn't require long periods of battery life. I'm happy to say that the project was a success so who knows, maybe one day we'll have someone port it to C and continue from there.

Sorry I can't be more specific.
Show HN: Stratum – An open source silicon-independent switch operating system
Ah. Well, he was the lazy stay-at-home guy of the four hobbits before the adventure :)

Samwise did hard physical work regularly, and Meriadock and Pippin while also somewhat pampered (remember, of the four hobbit, only Sam wasn't nobility!) were somewhat known for their adventures.
I'm currently experimenting with React and WebSockets and they seem to be a perfect fit.

No need to write wrappers for Fetch, network errors and reconnects can be handled on high-level, handlers for each message type can be mounted and unmounted on useEffect hooks, all back-end jobs can notify the user in realtime, all session-based client-side data can be updated in realtime (in single or multiple open tabs).

I'm also using uWebSockets.js[0] which is great in terms of API design, stability, and performance. Their benchmarks[1] are just convincing. Highly recommend people using ExpressJS / Koa / whatever to try it.

[0] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/

[1] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets/tree/master/bench...
Maybe Robinhood's mission of democratizing finance is succeeding. The locus of power is being sucked out of Wall Street into a lumbering giant in the hills. My question is: how isn't this the most useful outcome for the most people?
The poverty rate is an awful metric. It simply counts the number of people who earn below a certain income. So people dipping $1 below the line are counted the same as those dipping $10,000 below the line. So, poverty-rate alleviation measures can be implemented simply by focusing on the top end of those under the limit - of course, this doesn't help much. What we should really worry about is the poverty gap - the amount of income people need to get people above the poverty line.
When to Say F#^K You
You don’t actually understand option prices. Put-call parity. The reason why options are so expensive is because of high implied volatility. Both calls AND puts are expensive; as they always will be, because if they’re not balanced, a risk free arbitrage ensures.

Here’s an article on why calls and puts must be the same price: https://robotwealth.com/why-arent-call-options-more-expensiv...
FWIW IKEA has a lot of solid wood (often pine) options that do last a very long time. My favourite thing is that they degrade gracefully. You get scuffs and dents rather than peeling laminate and engineered wood shavings falling out.
I should've been more clear. I was aware, and I think it's a good idea even if they're going to scrap this platform. Mea culpa.
I'm half-serious. It wouldn't be the first minefield that acts as a nature reserve, e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39821956 or https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/06/living-i...
20+Tic Tac Toe in JavaScript
https://www.boredpanda.com/socially-anxious-girl-friendship-...

The above is an example on how the entire school thought some girl was stupid because she asked too many questions. They were right in a way but also wrong.

This is anecdotal evidence, but the fact that an entire school thought this way makes it pseudo statistical as the population of a school is quite large.

The quality of the questions you ask matters and yes like all inborn behavior it can be overridden.
I believe the reason the GP brought that up is that Show HN's are typically used to show something that you've made yourself.

This is an interesting topic though so a standard submission would work well.
I tried to buy last night at $146, but I didn't get in before the market closed. Today I bought one single share at $360 and I feel like an idiot on multiple levels. Pure gambling, but it's fun.
The exact opposite of tax avoidance is tax evasion? I think not. Tax evasion is legally tax avoidance that has been proven to be illegal. What about tax avoidance that hasn't yet been proven so, or maybe the charge has been thrown out on a technicality, or maybe it rests on exploiting a loop-hole? To me, that might not be tax evasion legally, but surely it's tax evasion in spirit. And since we're not in the middle of some courtroom proceedings, in spirit is how we should understand these words.
Nerf’s new blasters can curve their shots
I am not virologist, but for me, a virus U get in fall and when the winter off... I do not see many differences
Yup, two sides of the same coin. Love the name by the way :) Workpath isn't yet doing in-home nurse visits although it's on their roadmap. There's some additional complexity with the in-home nurse visits - will be interesting to see how they make the transition.
Guide for Understanding the Trinity
I gave up on three Kinesis Advantage keyboards in 2006, after they all started dropping key-up events on modifier keys. I then took one apart. Primitive, dated USB hardware, and nothing about the company read that they were eager to modernize. (The ergo keyboard market abounds with never-updated designs.)

Has there been a generational improvement in their circuit quality?
Show HN: CloudEnv – Simple E2E encrypted hosted environmental variables
Hi all; I created an secret management service called CloudEnv (https://cloudenv.com).

There is already Doppler, EnvKey, Vault and a few others, but I wanted something that was:

- End-to-End encrypted, I don't want my secrets hosted in plain text

- Super easy and quick to setup

- CLI friendly, I'm plenty happy using vim

- I didn't want to use any crazy desktop GUIs to edit my vars

Nothing satisfied all these requirements for me. Vault was too heavy. Doppler was not e2e encrypted. EnvKey had a crazy desktop GUI.

I wanted something just right for small teams.

So I made https://CloudEnv.com

Would love your thoughts. Thank you!
This is on the roadmap - we're big believers in automated design validation and we are certainly not stopping with schematic-level checks.
A stonk is a stock that moves with no regard to the intrinsic value of the underlying business

The government's monetary policy, along with widespread retail call option trading, have turned certain "hot" parts of the stock market into stonks, prices rising parabolically or exponentially, making gamblers very rich

Behold: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/

Low interest rates have recently produced extreme asset price inflation (e.g., record stock market prices) despite suffering in the real economy

The wealth gap is widening in an unprecedented way
"stonks" is a common internet meme standin for "stocks". In the same way "pwned" is a standin for "owned", etc.
who knows but their market cap has become so bloated that any new issuance would probably not be that dilutive. i doubt that is what would trigger a crash.
A good picture to help visualize that: https://i.insider.com/579a52aa88e4a79f178bb61a?width=1200&fo...
Social signaling must come from the person doing the signaling. In my experience people who've made life changing money off crypto this last couple months say they are 'investors' or have a couple of 'business'. Never would they say it was all luck or I gambled my way to the top. They saw a trend, they bet one it and they were payed for voting with their wallet. Although you call it 'gambling' someone else might call it 'insight' or 'Voting with your wallet' in the case of crypto.
I didn’t know amnesty sold things. I meant that AI doesn’t sell any products and services, like a hospital or business would, therefore AI wouldn’t have income to tax anyway. But I guess they do sell some items for brand awareness/raising funds, and I think treating it like any other business is appropriate to prevent a loophole from existing.
Did you actually read his interview though? If you’re going to mock your entire genre, you should at least be accurate. Otherwise, critics will rightly point out that you’re writing a genre you don’t know. When you add in that second quote, it’s even more obvious that he doesn’t know his genre.

The dude wrote some books at a team with YA was all the rage and got a film deal out of it. He made some godawful marketing and communications decisions and faced predictable consequences. I don’t feel bad for writers who can’t communicate. Nor do I feel bad for writers who aren’t capable of thinking through how their work fits within a genre they’re trying to capitalize on. Businesses that make bad marketing decisions cancel themselves and in this case, the writer made a myriad of awful business decisions. That’s capitalism.

And seriously, who would outright mock the Hunger Games without expecting some sort of disproportionate backlash? YA works in disproportionates - it’s the entire beast, right down to the growth strategy. If you’re not wise enough to understand your genre, you lose. The thought that you could dismiss that entire genre with garbage critiques and not face bizarre retribution is so insane that I can’t take it seriously.

And if you’re going to do that after you’ve signed a film deal?? I’m sorry but you deserve to be cancelled.
If you made a minimum wage that was significantly above the prevailing wage I'd expect to see inflation in a economy like the US. My wager would be that dollars that are currently chasing returns in the stock market may shift to wages resulting in those same dollars now trying to buy consumer goods rather than stock. We might not call that inflation in the economy generally as after all stocks would "deflate" during that time but in terms of living day to day it would be.

Another potential mechanism would be if unemployment went up high enough due to a minimum wage increase that productivity decreases so much that the same number to dollars are chasing the results of less workers.

That said, with the exception of very rural areas the wage floor for most moderately skilled or unpleasant work is above $15 an hour already, so this will probably not have much of a impact on poverty or inflation.
Linux Struck by Exploitable Root Access Sudo Vulnerability, Patch ASAP
I swear that beheading video is a form of generational anchor in the same way that the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 soundtrack is something a certain group (early millenial/late genx) is.
Ha, yes, the intent is that it would be an open and stated part of the hiring process. There's no reason to surprise people with the question. I'd rather let candidates self-select them out, as much for this question as for any other mis-alignments.

I did a poor job in my first comment of explaining my role relative to hiring. I'm speaking from a position of having been a founder and CEO, and likely being one again. The question about how this would play it with HR is understood, but isn't applicable to me personally. I believe (as I suspect you do) that in most organizations, this would be a hard thing to instill retroactively or individually and would meet lots of resistance, unless it were a very philosophically aligned company.
TD Ameritrade Puts Unprecedented “Restrictions” on Transactions in GME, AMC
do you think you would have gotten the fang job if your IQ were only 100. IQ, although far from prefect, is highly predictive of ability. Sure, not all high IQ people become coders, almost all coders are high IQ.
Ameritrade restricted trading in GameStop, AMC amid volume spike
You should probably put the bottom, italicized part closer to the top of what is a good illustration. Many folks (most?) won't immediately know what a $300 premium means to a $360 strike price. Meaning even if it goes to zero, you make a whopping $60. But your point of making $30 on a $300 risk clears it up, I think.
Not thought about the re-assembly side of things - most of the second hand items I have collected didn't need dismantling - they came as one unit. (At the cost of the annoyance of moving it as a single unit!)

I am sure there are different experiences out there, could also be the circle of friends that do a lot of IKEA "freecycling" meaning I do see a higher quantity of re-used items being moved about.

I know that depending on the type of item as well there is a build quality issue - like Kallax shelving, it is a little more sturdier than the slightly cheaper version, and given I started with Kallax, I have stuck with it - Same with the Billy book cases too!

Although, the Diam Cake you can get from IKEA... that 100% is not going to waste, and 100% no one is getting a "second hand" one from me... there will be none left ;)

But returning back! It could be Apples to Oranges, there are so many products, and in my experience I have seen people stick to the same grouping of products as well, which could see re-use more possible than say another grouping (for any number of reasons).

Who knows, tomorrow the shelf behind me might just fall apart and I will be back eating my own words :)
He's an opinion columnist, which means you can say pretty much anything, without regard to journalistic standards. Opinion columnists only lose their jobs to bad scandals - you can advocate for awful wars or policies that kill millions no problemo.
I think you're just seeing volatility difference between the stocks, not sentiment difference. Calls on Gamestop are also more expensive than Microsoft right?
Also with out if money call options you can have 5x leverage quite easily with limited downside, and that's what retail is doing on masse.

It's more fun than playing lottery for sure.